From e15ca65874b2a8bcd7435696b8f01252c39512ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?0x=E2=88=85?= <m.naiemahemad@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2026 05:47:38 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] [ie/twitch:videos] Raise error when channel is not found
 (#15458)

Closes #15450
Authored by: 0xvd
---
 yt_dlp/extractor/twitch.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/twitch.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/twitch.py
index 5e87e92070..24e510a983 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/twitch.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/twitch.py
@@ -680,6 +680,10 @@ class TwitchPlaylistBaseIE(TwitchBaseIE):
                 }],
                 f'Downloading {self._NODE_KIND}s GraphQL page {page_num}',
                 fatal=False)
+            # Avoid extracting random/unrelated entries when channel_name doesn't exist
+            # See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/15450
+            if traverse_obj(page, (0, 'data', 'user', 'id', {str})) == '':
+                raise ExtractorError(f'Channel "{channel_name}" not found', expected=True)
             if not page:
                 break
             edges = try_get(